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Did I accidentally start my CS career in a dead-end ‘data job’? Trying to figure out where to go from here.

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u/OpportunityWest1297 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I get that there is a lot of doom and gloom around AI, but it's not going to displace human beings. "AI" is non-deterministic automation. You still need human beings to evaluate the quality of its output, as well as govern its input, as well as validate the process(es) it follo

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Anthropic's research indicates AI is indeed replacing human programmers already and likely will replace far more soon: [https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts](https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts)

u/OpportunityWest1297 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

This is what google says: Software engineering jobs saw 25 years of consistent growth, with the workforce increasing by nearly 140%, before experiencing a decline in 2023. While demand for traditional, generalist roles has dropped by about one-third since 2020 due to layoffs, sp

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Anthropic's research indicates AI is indeed replacing human programmers already and likely will replace far more soon: [https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts](https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts) Codesmith's blog and Bloomtech's blog are marketing blogs and not a source of fact. Anthropic's research is academic research.